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The Gentlemen in the White Hats
Dramatic Episodes in the History of the Texas Rangers
C. L. Douglas
With a new Foreword by Roger N. Conger
For more than 150 years the Texas Rangers have blazed a trail
across Texas history in their role as policemen for the state of
Texas. In 1934, when C. L. Douglas wrote this popular account of
the Rangers' achievements, there were few other histories of the
organization. By vocation a journalist, Douglas devoted years of
research to these historic lawmen with their aura of courage and
resolve. Legendary feats from all the historical periods of the
Rangers are brought back to life in Douglas's accounts. From the
early days of the Republic and before the Civil War he writes of
the battles of the vengeful Comanches against the relentless
advance of the white frontiersman and their way of life. After the
creation of the Frontier Battalion in the 1870s he narrates the
heady exploits against the Mexican bandits and outlaw cattle
rustlers. From the twentieth century we read of such exploits as
those of Frank Hamer and his relentless pursuit of Bonnie and
Clyde. The mystique of the Texas Rangers persists—the mystique
of a remarkable cast of characters vividly brought to life by Douglas.
Truly a different breed were these Gentlemen in the White Hats.
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